Cynerio and Check Point partner for comprehensive medical IoT device security

July 26, 2023

Cybersecurity vendors Cynerio and Check Point Software Technologies announced Tuesday that they have partnered to provide healthcare organizations with comprehensive security for their medical IoT devices.

Cynerio’s 360 platform will provide functionality critical to securing healthcare IoT devices, including device discovery, patch guidance, micro-segmentation, and attack detection. By pairing this functionality with threat prevention and remediation technologies provided by Check Point Quantum IoT Protect, healthcare organizations will receive the complete device security protections they are seeking.

The integration of the Cynerio and Check Point solutions provide healthcare organizations with advanced medical IoT protections:

Comprehensive visibility: Cynerio’s 360 Platform provides healthcare organizations with a comprehensive view of all their connected medical devices, including their location, configuration, and vulnerabilities. This visibility helps organizations identify and prioritize security risks.
Network level protections: Cynerio’s deep packet inspection technology uses Generative AI to analyze traffic patterns, create security policies, and automatically test those policies before deployment.
Threat prevention: Check Point Quantum IoT Protect uses AI/ML and behavioral analysis to identify and prevent attacks on IoT devices. This helps to protect organizations from known and unknown threats.
IoT attack detection: Cynerio’s Attack Detection and Response offering will allow the paired products to detect active attacks missed by traditional technologies and immediately respond to those attacks.
Remediation: When a threat is detected, Check Point Quantum IoT Protect can automatically remediate the issue, such as by blocking malicious traffic or isolating the affected device. This helps to minimize the impact of a security incident.

“The global healthcare industry continues to see increasing attacks resulting in impacted patient care, multi-million dollar recovery costs, and exposed patient records numbering in the tens of millions,” Leon Lerman, Cynerio CEO, said in a media statement. “We are excited to partner with Check Point to provide healthcare organizations with a comprehensive solution that will secure their medical IoT devices. The partnership joins Cynerio’s expertise in medical IoT security and Check Point’s threat prevention technology. Together, we will help healthcare organizations protect their patients, data, and operations from cyber threats.”

The integration of Cynerio’s 360 Platform and Check Point Quantum IoT Protect is available now.

Last August, Cynerio disclosed in a report that cyberattacks have increasingly targeted healthcare facilities, with widespread and repeated attacks, financial losses measured in the millions, and frequent failures to take basic cybersecurity measures. Although lagging security practices have fueled the cyberattacks, the failures are measured in fatalities rather than fiscal loss.